Nip Cheese (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Nip Cheese

A nick name for the purser of a ship: from
those gentlemen being supposed sometimes to nip, or
diminish, the allowance of the seamen, in that and every
other article. It is also applied to stingy persons in
general.

Definition taken from
The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue,
originally by Francis Grose.